Implementation of Postpartum Depression Screening for Women Participating in the WIC Program.

Introduction: The national average for the occurrence of postpartum depression (PPD) is 11.5%. Women enrolled in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program are at an elevated risk for PPD symptoms due to risk factors such as a low income, unemployment, low education level, and younger maternal age.

Relationship Satisfaction of Intimate Partners of Persons Living With Urinary Incontinence.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine effects of urinary incontinence (UI) on midlife women's relationships with their intimate partners, from the perspective of both women and their partners.

Design: A cross-sectional, mixed-methods design.

Subjects And Setting: Purposive, convenience/snowball sampling strategies and community-based recruitment strategies were used to enroll partnered, midlife women living with UI.

Charting Cognitive Growth of Nursing Students Using Linguistic Software.

Background: Students' word choice when writing in a reflective journal may reveal their emotional development, sense of belonging, cognitive processing, and ability to appraise their own growth and understanding. New linguistic analysis software can scan and categorize these journals for the use of pronouns, positive and negative emotions, and cognitive keywords.

Methods: A retrospective study design evaluated student journaling from a psychiatric clinical course.

Urinary Incontinence and Psychosocial Factors Associated With Intimate Relationship Satisfaction Among Midlife Women.

Objective: To explore associations among symptoms of urinary incontinence, severity of symptoms, and measures of psychosocial health that may be assessed during a well-woman screening examination and the possible contribution of these variables to the relationship satisfaction of partnered midlife women living with urinary incontinence.

Design: Exploratory correlational design using self-report questionnaires.

Setting: Community recruitment by posted fliers, advertisements, and social media.

Blog text about female incontinence: presentation of self, disclosure, and social risk assessment.

Background: Female urinary incontinence is a significant health concern that often remains undisclosed to healthcare providers, often because of embarrassment and fear of a negative response.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore communication patterns found in blog text regarding self-presentation by women living with incontinence for clues to facilitate disclosure.

Methods: This is a descriptive, empirical study of publically archived blog text (years inclusive 2006-2011; N = 16,629 words from 19 bloggers) by women communicating about urinary incontinence, utilizing methods of content analysis.

Disclosure: a concept analysis.

Aim: This article is a report of a concept analysis of disclosure.

Background: Disclosure of health concerns is often delayed or incomplete, resulting in a lack of appropriate care or inability to avoid complications. Disclosure is a poorly understood phenomenon in nursing, however, an understanding of the concept is critical to providing effective nursing care.